New Mexico State University’s Intercollegiate Floriculture Team is a student-led organization within the Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, which focuses on fundamentals necessary in floriculture.
The organization gives students hands-on activities, such as floral design and growing their own plants in the Fabian Garcia Research Center’s greenhouses, named after the NMSU chile pepper breeder Fabian Garcia.
The Intercollegiate Floriculture Team holds floral sales to help fundraise sending students to compete in regional and national floral design competitions. The club is not entirely funded through teaching funds, so students sell seasonal floral designs and plants at the team’s flower and plant sales events to provide themselves funding…